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Celebration, flags, colour, music and mingling at St Canice’s on the Feast Day of St Ignatius inspires a sense of ‘Festa’. Freshly cut banana trees on the columns and at the doorways of the church bring a sense of Railaco to our doorstep here in Elizabeth Bay.

Inside, the church is decorated with flowers; with shiny leaves of the banana tree, huge bunches of bright yellow sunflowers and the red of the Leucadendron remind us of the Timor-Leste flag, and of our sister parish of the Railaco Jesuit Mission.

  ST IGNATIUS FEAST DAY CELEBRATIONS AT ST CANICE’S     Students from three of Sydney’s Jesuit Colleges came to St Canice’s this weekend to join in the parish Feast Day celebrations and to share of their recent ‘immersion’ experiences at our sister parish in East Timor, at the Jesuit Railaco Mission. Fr Tom Renshaw …

St Canice’s can uniquely commemorate the Centenary of the First World War through the stories of five descendants of our benefactor, John Hughes, who lost their lives in the War. This is the booklet that I put around a beautifully-researched story by good friend and fellow parishioner, Kevin Walsh. Click link below to view: Sharing …

  his year I managed after many misses to kick off the Christmas Season by going to see ‘Lights of Christmas’ projected on the face of St Mary’s Cathedral, Sydney’s oldest and grandest church, and the largest sandstone structure in the Southern Hemisphere. Now in the right mood, I decide this is the year to …

here do the lines for ‘good liturgy’ and ‘grand performance’ transect? Of course, my driven self strives to achieve both these objectives, and I’m grateful for the occasional opportunity to ‘perform’ and ‘do liturgy’ down at my local Jesuit parish of St Canice’s.   ow, three months later, we celebrate the Feast of St Ignatius, …